Sentence examples for repair rather than from inspiring English sources

Good marriages work because couples learn to repair, rather than escalate, their conflicts.

If your boiler isn't inefficient but just broken you may be offered a repair rather than a new boiler.

We decided it was better to eat the $150 repair rather than risk having a bad review".

Occasionally a trend helps rather than hurts business, for instance, during economic downturns because more people repair rather than replace their possessions.

In the past, he took on interns from Barcelona's IPFP Verge de la Mercè, the only watch-making school in Spain, but later stopped, because, he said, the students' coursework was geared toward repair rather than becoming master watchmakers.

At the Renzo Piano-designed new headquarters of The New York Times, on Eighth Avenue, the rows of single 28-watt fluorescent bulbs that line the ceilings are connected to a computer network that lets maintenance workers quickly scan which ones need replacing or repair, rather than trolling the floors.

That Mr. Brooks doesn't mention such Clinton administration initiatives as urban renewal, brownfield revitalization, community policing and gun control undermines the argument that the betterment of society is "moral self-repair" rather than an effective domestic agenda put into effect under fierce scrutiny that is now showing real, measurable results.

But what if we held on to our gadgets longer and repaired, rather than replaced them?

US regulators, too, face criticism for agreeing to floor-mat repairs rather than insisting on a full safety recall.

It is possible that the carpet could have been repaired rather than having to be replaced, she said.

Products will be made to last and, when they come to the end of their useful life, be repaired rather than thrown away.